Meeting rooms
Somebody wants a screen outside each meeting room showing what is booked, and the first question to settle is where that booking information comes from. For most of these products the answer is a calendar integration, and ChannelOS does not have one.
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What goes on the screen
At a size that reads from the corridor. Renaming a room is an edit rather than a new engraved plate.
Capacity, the screen, the conferencing kit, how to connect to it. The questions asked at the start of every meeting by whoever got there first.
Clear the room by the hour, no food in this one, this room is out for works until Friday. The last of those placed on its dates so it removes itself.
Where a small number of rooms are booked by one person, the day's list can be typed and placed on the hours. Honest about being typed.
How it is different
Every one of these is a mechanism rather than a promise, so you can confirm each of them on a free screen before you pay for anything.
A paired screen holds a connection and derives what it shows from the schedule in real time. Change the board and the screens follow in seconds. There is no publish step, no playlist to re-download and no interval to tune.
Not a playlist. A channel is a named feed with a daily and weekly plan plus date-scoped overrides, so a board can hold Tuesday afternoons, a campaign can own one fortnight, and a screen tuned in follows its own clock all year without anyone touching it.
Below a laptop width the whole editor swaps chrome rather than shrinking: a bottom tool bar, a selection bar that navigates as a menu stack, and the deck one tap from the slide counter. Fixing a wrong price from the shop floor is the normal way to use it.
Describe the board in a sentence, or hand over the PDF you already print from, and the assistant drafts a real editable show. It stays available to reword, restyle or rebuild a slide by chat, and the same assistant answers product questions in the app.
Android TV, Google TV, webOS, Fire TV, a Chromebox or a laptop in kiosk mode, paired by scanning a code with your phone. There is a native Android TV app too, downloaded as an APK from our own site rather than from Google Play. No media player box, no per-device licence, nothing to sideload.
Nothing to install, in the normal case: open the player URL in the screen's own browser and scan the code with your phone. If you would rather install an app, the native Android TV app is a free download from our own site rather than from Google Play, and a screen running it is on exactly the same plan as a screen running the browser.
When to buy something else
Read this before buying, because for most offices ChannelOS is the wrong answer here. There is no calendar integration: no Microsoft 365, no Google Workspace, no Exchange, no room resource sync. The screen cannot show what is booked, cannot show free or busy, cannot be used to book or release a room, and has no occupancy sensing or check-in. If the requirement is a door panel that reflects the calendar and lets somebody claim the room, buy a room booking product built for that. ChannelOS covers the part of a room screen that is a sign: the name, the kit, the rules and a notice.
Questions
More of these on Answers, which covers cost, hardware and what happens when the wifi drops.
A screen that is already playing keeps playing if the wifi drops, but it needs the connection back to come up again after a power cut, because nothing is cached on the television itself. If a screen has to survive a long outage entirely on its own, buy a player from a company that sells one and ask them about local storage. That is a real reason to pay for hardware. Ours is not one of them.
Keep reading
Lobbies, meeting rooms and internal comms, and where each one stops.
The reception board, and the visitor system it is not.
Designing for a door panel on its end rather than rotating a board.
What it costs, what runs it, what happens when the wifi drops.
Boards you can remix: meeting room displays templates , each one opening in your own workspace in a single click.
Pair a screen, put a board on it, and see whether the mechanism above holds before you pay for anything. The first screen is free forever.
Pricing shows what a second screen costs and what the free one leaves out.
Free screens show a ChannelOS banner, and about every 2 minutes it opens into a full ChannelOS slide; any paid plan removes both.
Sell it instead of buying it. The ChannelOS partner program pays 20% of what each business you refer pays us for their first 12 months, then 10% for as long as they stay. Free to join, nothing to stock.
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